Employment Law Update: Spring 2009
Why Attend?
Feeling anxious because you’re not up-to-date with all the recent developments in employment law? Take this tour de force overview and relax. In just two hours, you can relieve that unease of the uninformed with maximum-dose updates on:
Supreme Court cases and rulings
New legislation, including The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
New developments in FLSA, ERISA, SOX, and USERRA litigation
Discrimination rulings on age, race, sex, national origin, transgender, and pregnancy claims
Class action and damage trends
Hot topics in discovery, including use of waiver of privilege claims and subpoenas for employment records
What You Will Learn
Every employment attorney needs to stay abreast of the most important developments in this fast-changing field of law. In this semi-annual overview, two preeminent practitioners deliver succinct summaries of those key developments in a rapid-fire style that will give you writer’s cramp!
Leading experts, Robert B. Fitzpatrick and Barbara Berish Brown first review new legislation and regulations, including:
The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009
The ADA Amendments Act of 2008
The McCaskill Amendment to the Economic Stimulus Bill
Review of key Supreme Court rulings and pending cases is essential to any employment law practice. Our experts deliver just what your need with their pithy summaries of the key cases, including:
Crawford v. Metropolitan Government of Nashville, concerning existence of a retaliation claim for those who participated in an internal investigation but did not themselves make a claim of harassment
Gross v. FBL Financial Services, Inc., concerning need for direct evidence of discrimination to obtain a mixed-motive instruction in a non-Title VII discrimination case
Ricci v. DeStefano, concerning claims that city officials violated firefighters’ Title VII and equal-protection rights by throwing out the results of two promotional exams
Graham County Soil & Water v. United States ex rel. Wilson, concerning the statute of limitations for False Claims Act retaliation claims
Fitzgerald v. Barnstable School Committee, concerning whether Title IX prevents suits against public schools for sex discrimination
The impact of AT&T v. Hulteen
Arbitration and statutory non-discrimination rights after 14 Penn Plaza LLC v. Pyett
Federal jurisdiction when suit to compel arbitration arises under state law, Vaden v. Discover Bank
They also identify key issues and summarize important developments in litigation arising under other legislation affecting employment litigation, including:
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act
The Fair Labor Standards Act, and application of the Faragher-Ellerth affirmative defense to FLSA cases
ERISA
USERRA (The Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act)
Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Discrimination claims and key developments pertaining to them are addressed, too, with special attention to:
Transgender discrimination claims
National origin discrimination claims
The contours of “protected activity”
The new generation of discrimination claims, including “unconscious discrimination” claims
Pregnancy discrimination claims
Class action and damage issues have special significance for employment attorneys, and this program provides thumbnail overviews of developments affecting class actions and damage claims, including a trend toward waiver of arbitration in class actions and the use of race in computing damages.
Discovery in employment cases can make or break a claimant’s case, and our experts review the developments that can affect discovery in your cases, including:
Waiver of attorney-client privilege by claimants who use their employer’s equipment or email system
Handling of discovery subpoenas to plaintiffs’ former and current employers
Privacy issues in the workplace
For a succinct, two-hour overview of all the key employment law developments over the past six months, this is the program you must attend. So sign up today, and then be prepared for this whirlwind tour of employment law developments.
Who Should Attend
Employment lawyers and other professionals who need an update on key employment law developments during the past 6 months should attend this seminar.
Faculty
Barbara Berish Brown, Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP, Washington, D.C.
Robert B. Fitzpatrick, Robert B. Fitzpatrick, PLLC, Washington, D.C.
Program Schedule
12:00 noon Employment Law Update: Summary of Key Developments in:
New Legislation and Regulations
Supreme Court Cases and Rulings
Developments in SOX, FLSA, ERISA, Computer Act, and Pregnancy Act Litigation
Key Developments in Discrimination Litigation
Hot Discovery Topics in Employment Litigation
2:00 p.m. Questions and Answers
2:15 p.m. Adjournment
Total 60-minute hours of instruction: 2.25; Total 50-minute hours, 2.7
Times
Eastern 12 noon – 2:15 pm
Central 11 am – 1:15 pm
Mountain 10 am – 12:15 pm
Pacific and Arizona 9 am – 11:15 am
Alaska 8 am – 10:15 am
Hawaii 6 am – 8:15 am
